U.S. President Donald Trump reacts as he speaks during the signing ceremony for an executive order on mail ballots, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., March 31, 2026. REUTERS Evan Vucci
Voters delivered harsh news to President Donald Trump and his handling of the U.S. economy following his painful war on Iran.
When asked if there was “any way in which your life has gotten better during this second trump administration” one voter speaking with MS NOW in Minnesota said “F——, no. Not at all.”
“I don't think anyone's doing good right now. I don't know why people thought the economy was going to get better and stuff, and I don't see that happening at all,” Alaina Franczak added.
“Is like all prices, all prices for living and a lot of things, to buy groceries — all that's more expensive,” complained voter Isidro Estrada.
"We're going all the way down to hell, I might say to the grave,” said a Peter Ekame Moby. “So, to answer your question, did Donald Trump do something good since he got there? I don't think so, to be honest.”
Democratic strategist Adrienne Elrod, upon hearing the severe responses appeared to cringe with some degree of familiarity.
“Look, if you tell a voter, ‘you may be feeling like things aren't going great, but they're actually going great,' you're going to lose credibility with voters,” said Elrod. “That happened with President [Joe] Biden in 2024. And I will be the first to admit that I was somebody who was a spokesperson.”
“We would go on television, and we talked to reporters, we would talk to voters, and we would say, ‘actually, the economic stats are really, really good. You're wrong. You're not feeling this economy. There's no economic pain,’ essentially. And now you're seeing that happen with Trump and it's not working,” Elrod added. “People are just mad. I mean, that's they are. They are filling up their tanks two or three times higher than they were before.”
Elrod added also that Trump’s own voters are probably feeling more of the pain than Democrat voters, due to life situations.
“A lot of rural voters in America voted for trump. But they're the ones who are driving 50, 60 miles sometimes a day [to work]. They're the ones who are feeling it at the pump,” Elrod told an MS NOW “The Weekend” panel. “Those of us who live in Washington D.C. I drive maybe like three times a week. I'm not feeling it. But it's something when you're telling voters, at the end of the day, ‘actually things are good. It's going to be fine. Don't worry about it.’ You just lose a lot of credibility.”